Over The Border: Social History Research Of Ming Dynasty In America

In the last few years, western scholar study about China work of history cause the educational circles to pay close attention to and discuss extensively, their research visual angle, the theory and narration method have brought the fresh and new feeling to domestic scholar. Especially China social history study, is it enter for freedom and fresh air to blow to study for of our country history in recent ten years, its brand-new visual angle and research approach have widened the research field of historiography greatly, break historiography study rigid drawback in the past, make whole China history is it produce new vigor to study. Author choose social history study case and is it ask what historiography study new to tend to come to visit through an analysis of its latest research results Ming Dynasty such as America, and find out the overseas scholar and different from theory and method that China's native country scholar studies from it, in order to solve the problem that China's history exists while studying in the international academia exchanges and talks.This text is divided into three major parts. First part is American social history research question and standpoint, pass to social history analysis and summary to study thesis and work of Ming Dynasty in American of the past 30 years, sum up American how scholar use different viewpoint to research while the social history was studied in the Ming Dynasty. This chapter divides into three parts, study and launch describing from the state - social relationships, history research of the sex and material and culture separately.The second part is separately from America. "Ming Studies " Magazine and two these Ming Dynasty social masterpiece that history study case to represent American scholar to relevant discipline to come recently, especially it is sinceAnnales school, cultural anthropology, postmodernism, etc. theory method and the understanding and the applications of visual angle not western.The third part draw lessons from with localization, through to tradition, theory method, historiography of China, the different standpoints, issue state to chase layer analyses, proceed from relation between experience and theory to examine the way to treat China's question closely and find out our question and deficiency from it, and research and propose the hope and suggestion to historiography of the future.